BOSTON – Gregory Rodrigues denies hitting Denis Tiuliulin on the back of the head.
Rodrigues (14-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC) smashed Tiuliulin (11-8 MMA, 1-3 UFC) with vicious elbows on the ground in their middleweight matchup this past Saturday at UFC 292 – one of them which appeared to land on the back of Tiuliulin’s head.
The apparent illegal blow is what led to the fight-ending sequence as Rodrigues needed just one more strike to knock out Tiuliulin in Round 1 at TD Garden. But Rodrigues says he did not hit Tiuliulin on the back of the head.
